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Aint We Funkin · Brothers Johnson

Aint We Funkin · Brothers Johnson
EXERCISE 29 OF 47
Join Part L to Chorus 2 (bars 75-77)
151 / 160 BARS COVERED
0 / 47 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART L, CHORUS 2
CHORUS
PART L
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
PART C
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
8 groovesEPCJL+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 11
FILL · 6
LAND · 6
RUN · 2
JOIN · 10
LINK · 5
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Aint We Funkin on drums

160 bars of 4/4 at 115 BPM, about 5:34 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

49 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
115 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
160
LENGTH
5:34
DIFFICULTY
49/100

hi-hat through bars 1-24, kick and crashes through bars 25-28, hi-hat through bars 29-44, kick and crashes through bars 45-48, snare through bars 49-52 and hi-hat through bars 53-104, and 2 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-24, 29-35 and 37-40, and 16 more places -- 39.4% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    10
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-----x-x-------|
Aint We Funkin -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

6 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 7, 8, 25, 26, 44, 65 and 2 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 40 exercises -- the grooves, the fills, and the joins between sections, which is where players actually come off -- and puts them in the order a teacher would. Each one opens on a reduction you can already play and adds the notes back a rung at a time, with a tempo to reach and a gate to pass before the next.

  1. The grooves the song is built on -- E, P -- 2 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- J -- 2 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  3. Bars 1-81 -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. Bars 4-104 -- 7 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus and Part L -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  8. Bars 73-84 -- 4 exercises, about 20 minutes. Open above.
  9. and 3 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Aint We Funkin?

115 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. The room plays it at any tempo from a quarter of that up to the written one, against the record where the record can follow.

Is Aint We Funkin hard to play on drums?

49 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 30 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

160 bars, about 5:34 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 40 exercises over 11 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Aint We Funkin?

6 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 7, 8, 25, 26, 44, 65 and 2 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 160 BARS ANALYSED